Re: Wrong colors on ARAnyM

[Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>]

Hi Geert,

On 16/02/22 21:24, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
>> The atafb driver references a 'linux/tools/hardware.txt' file for a
>> description of the Videl registers. Does anyone still have a copy of
>> that file?
> At least full-history-linux doesn't have it.
Might be a reference to the old FTP archive at Erlangen then ...
>> Failing that - how would I go about setting specific text colours for
>> the console (or draw a test pattern showing the result of the four
>> palette entries)?
> I typically use fbtest for that.
One more reason to hunt for that in the dino age package archives :-)
>
> I also have a script to show the 16 colors (assumed there are 16):
>
> #!/bin/bash
> printf "\e[7m"
> printf "\e[30m                    BLACK                     \n"
> printf "\e[31m                    RED                       \n"
> printf "\e[32m                    GREEN                     \n"
> printf "\e[33m                    YELLOW                    \n"
> printf "\e[34m                    BLUE                      \n"
> printf "\e[35m                    MAGENTA                   \n"
> printf "\e[36m                    CYAN                      \n"
> printf "\e[37m                    WHITE                     \n"
> printf "\e[1m"
> printf "\e[30m                    BLACK                     \n"
> printf "\e[31m                    RED                       \n"
> printf "\e[32m                    GREEN                     \n"
> printf "\e[33m                    YELLOW                    \n"
> printf "\e[34m                    BLUE                      \n"
> printf "\e[35m                    MAGENTA                   \n"
> printf "\e[36m                    CYAN                      \n"
> printf "\e[37m                    WHITE                     \n"
> printf "\e[0m"
>
Thanks, that ought to do - I vaguely remembered there should be control 
sequences to set colour (having worked on VT100 and VT2xx emulators, 
though not the actual hardware terminals) but wasn't too sure.

Cheers,

     Michael


> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                          Geert
>
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